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Remedia in arduo, mala in
prono esse.
Remedies are hard, damage is easy
XCII.
Aetheriis postquàm deiecit sedibus Aten
Iuppiter,[1] heu vexat quàm mala noxa viros.
Evolat haec pedibus celer & pernicibus alis,
Intactumque nihil casibus esse sinit.
Ergo Litae proles Iovis hanc comitantur euntem,[2]
Sarturae quicquid fecerit illa mali.
Sed quia segnipedes strabae[3], lassaeque, senectâ,
Nil nisi p̣st longo tempore restituunt.
Once Jupiter had cast Ate down from the heavenly abode, what an evil bane thereafter assailed poor man! Ate flies out fleet of foot with fast-beating wing and leaves nothing untouched by mishap. So Jove’s daughters, the Litae, accompany her as she goes, to mend whatever ill she has brought about. But they are slow-footed, poor of sight and weary with age, and so they restore nothing until later, after long passage of time.
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Ungluck kumbt schnell, beße-
rung langsam.
XCII.
Als aus dem himel ist verjagt
Ate die Goettin des unfrid,
Wiert man in aller welt geplagt:
Wo sy umbfleugt, bringts allzeit mit
Alles ungluck on fael und bitt:
Fraw Besserung mit irnn gespan
Gar alt, volgt nach in schwachem trit,
Wendt schaden spat auff guete pan.
1. ‘Jupiter had cast Ate down’. See Homer, Iliad 19. 125ff.
2. ‘the Litae accompany her’. See Homer, Iliad 9.502ff. Ate means ‘Mischief’, Litae, ‘Prayers’. Ate was cast out of Olympus to bring harm to mankind, a personification of humans being led astray. The Litae were a personification of prayers offered in repentance.
3. Textual variant: ‘luscae’.
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Ex arduis perpetuum nomen.
Lasting renown won through tribulation
EMBLEMA CXXXI.
Crediderat platani ramis sua pignora passer,
Et benè, ni saevo visa dracone forent.
Glutiit hic pullos omnes, miseramque parentem
Saxeus, & tali dignus obire nece.
Haec nisi mentitur Calchas, monimenta laboris
Sunt longi, cuius fama perennis eat.[1]
A sparrow had entrusted her young to the branches of a plane-tree, and all would have been well, if they had not been observed by a merciless snake. This creature devoured all the chicks and the hapless parent too, a stony-hearted beast, turned to stone as it deserved. Unless Calchas speaks falsely, these are the tokens of long toil, the fame of which will go on through all the years.
1. See Homer, Iliad 2.299ff. for this portent which occurred at Aulis, where the Greek fleet was waiting to sail for Troy. Calchas the seer interpreted the eating of the eight chicks and their mother, followed by the death of the snake, as foretelling the nine-year battle for Troy, followed by success.
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